At the highest level of tennis, mental skill is often as — if not more — important than physical or technical ability.
This project explores how top players handle pressure situations to gain an edge over opponents.
Shot-by-shot data — including precise ball coordinates — from the French Open (the most prestigious clay court tournament) was used.
The analysis required: extensive data cleaning, parsing of match scores, joining multiple data sources
These steps enabled the creation of visualizations showing how elite players serve and return during high-pressure points.
Key findings:
On serve, elite players tend to stick to their strengths and play more aggressively under pressure.
On return, elite players generally adopt a more conservative strategy.
Southern counties tend to be more food insecure while north central and northeastern counties tend to be less food insecure.
We fit a simple spatial model and observed that it did not significantly alter p-values or coefficients.
Future analysis is important because the spatial relationship of food insecurity is visible in the residuals plot.